What Makes Brits Nearly Unbeatable at Golf Will Leave You Speechless

Former special forces operative Jason Fox, known for his unwavering dedication and unrelenting passion, has spent the last two decades operating in the world's most inhospitable environments. After years of serving in the most elite units and facing unimaginable challenges, Fox has found himself facing a new and altogether unexpected foe - the game of golf.

Despite the lack of bullets whizzing through the air or the constant threat of an IED detonating beneath his feet, Fox finds the fairway to be a battlefield like no other. While once his enemies were human and armed to the teeth, his current adversaries are not the terrorists he spent years fighting but his own demons - the most daunting of which is his temper.

In this gripping account of one man's journey to tame his ego and tame the links, Fox recounts the highs and the lows, the crushing defeats, and the exhilarating victories. Unlike his time serving in special forces where every decision was a matter of life and death, with golf, the margin for error might be wide but so too is the potential reward.

As he navigated his way through the beginner phase and quickly became enthralled by the intricate strategies necessary to succeed, it became clear that Fox would be unable to shake this new challenge so easily and that time and patience would be the difference-maker in a great many ways.

Even for one of the toughest men in Britain, conquering the ever-fickle game of golf has proven no easy task but also an improbable challenge for any Brit with more stomach than those of our fabled cousins, who are almost fearless. ‘No,’ states Fox firmly, ‘they could give a toss about this war.’

But for Fox, his answer to how the Brits have historically fared so well is ‘it’s because we Brits are naturally made of sterner stuff.’ With a wit that defies a grin, the seasoned warrior, turned sports journalist with an irrepressible winning spirit to make some pretty surprising statements here, gives people a glimpse into his life, past and present. He recounts why he wanted to document this for posterity. An honest endeavor so far so good and only just beginning.

’The one secret that makes Brits so good at golf,’ he’s saying about this big discovery, is nothing other than their ‘ability to perform under stress,’ or the pressure they have been under sometimes, and when he’s also stating that the British do not take it as seriously as say the Americans. A point that is sure likely to raise eyebrows as well.

Finding solace and camaraderie in the notoriously stoic Britishness, in foxholes and on the grounds of an old manor house, Fox notes that not for the life of him could he have foreseen in twenty years or twenty days the new road this would take him down; which at last check still bade him well on good behavior.